Telecom Leadership Forum 2019

About Us

Telecom Leadership Forum is an annual meeting of the Indian telecom leaders and other industry stakeholders. It is a platform to meet, discuss, and explore new and emerging business models, technology options, revenue streams and changing customer expectations. The objective is to help telecom leaders grow their business with better and newer services

1 Day

Forum & Awards

Power Hour

CEO Roundtable

200+

Telecom Leaders

25+

Eminent Speakers

360 °

Degree Marketing Platform

25+

Telco Category Awards

3 +

Telco Leadership Awards

4

Focused Breakout Sessions

Jury Members

Jury Meet

13^th Februay 2019

Sandip Das

Former CEO, Hutchison Max & former MD, Reliance Jio

Rajan Mathews

Director General, COAI

Sanjay Kaul

Head of Asia Pacific & Japan, Service Provider Business, Cisco India & SAARC

Abhay Savargaonkar

Former, Chief Technology Officer, Airtel(India & South Asia)

Ajey Mehta

MD, HMD Global

Dr Anand Agarwal

Group CEO, Sterlite Technologies

Arun Karna

MD, AT&T India

Sanjay Malik

MD, Nokia India

Rajen Vagadia

MD, Qualcomm India

Munish Seth

Country Director, Google India

Vipin Tyagi

Executive Director, C-DoT

Pradeep Gupta

CMD, CyberMedia & Jury Vice Chair

Agenda

Time	Sessions
08:30 - 9:15 AM	Registrations & Welcome Tea
09:15-09:30 AM	Welcome Address Ibrahim Ahmad, Group Editor, CyberMedia
09:30-09:40 AM	Introductory : Forecast & Action Strategies 2019 Dr Rajat Kathuria, CEO & Director, ICRIER
09:40 – 10:40 AM	Keynote : Consumer 2.0 Harmeen Mehta, Group CIO, Bharti Airtel Inaugural : Building Blocks for Digital India Keynote Rajan Mathews, DG, COAI Inaugural : Digital Network for Digital Indian Keynotes Arjun Shilkar, Director Systems Engineer, Service Provider Business, Cisco KS Rao, CEO – Telecom Services, Sterlite Technologies P Balaji, Chief Regulatory & Corp Affairs Officer, Vodafone Idea
10:40 – 11:00 AM	Networking Tea Break
11:00 – 11:45 AM	NextGen : The People's Network Keynote Shared Data Environment Ravi Saxena, Master Technologist, Hewlett Packed Enterprise India Keynotes V Umashankar, CEO, Gurugram Metropolitan Dev Authority Abhay Savargaonkar, ex-CTO, Airtel
11:45 – 12:35 PM	Security : Secure Networks for Work & Play Keynote Dr. Gulshan Rai, Chief Cyber Security Coordinator, PMO, Govt. of India Brijesh Datta, EVP & CISO, Reliance Jio Vikas Awasthi, Security Sales Lead for Public Sector, Cisco India Manish Tiwari, CISO, Bharti Airtel Digital Army Maj Gen Ravi Chaudhary, ADG (IS & Digital Army)
12:35 – 1:25 PM	The Future is Now Keynotes TV Ramachandran, President, BIF Puneet Chawla, CMD, RailTel Badri Gomatam, CTO, Sterlite Technologies Krish Sridhar, COO, Tikona Telecom Birendra Singh, AVP Telecom Services, Sify Technologies Vinay Jain, Director-Operations, Service Provider Business, Cisco
1:25 – 2:25 PM	Networking Lunch
1:25 – 2:25 PM	To Shift to Digital Value Player (By Invitation Only) Speakers ↓ Sunil Kumar, Director (Ent Business), MTNL TR Dua, DG, TAIPA Sridhar Krish, COO, Tikona Telecom Kapil Ahuja, CEO (North), Rjio Mridul Srivastava, Head – Marketing & Connect, BT India Brijesh Datta, EVP & CISO, Reliance Jio Lt Gen Dr SP Kochhar, CEO, TSSC Ashutosh Vasant, Director (POM), Railtel Arun Karna, MD, AT&T India Vipin Tyagi, ED, CDoT Ajit Yadav, Head - Enterprise Sales, Reliance Communications Avinash Agarwal, Addl DG (IT & PP), Prasar Bharti Anil Jain, Head - Wings, BSNL Seshagiri Rao, CMD, TCIL Rajen Vagadia, MD, Qualcomm India Badri Gomatam, CTO, Sterlite Technologies Dr. Rishi Bhatnagar, President, Aeries Communication NK Goyal, Chairman, TEMA Sandeep Arora, MD-Customer Experience, Cisco India Moderator : Rajan Mathews, DG, COAI
2:25 – 3:15 PM	Network : Why Network is the Net Worth Keynotes Ashwani Khillan, CEO, American Tower Corp. Amit Malik, MD, Global Service Provider Segment (Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China) Vinay Kumar, Director (AI), Microsoft Manish Sinha, CMO, Sterlite Technologies Ravi Saxena, Master Technologist, Hewlett Packed Enterprise India
3:15 – 4:15 PM	Devices : Smartphone 2.0 Keynotes Rajen Vagadia, MD, Qualcomm India Hitesh Oberoi, CEO & MD, Naukri.com Pankaj Mahindroo, President, Indian Cellular Association Pankaj Rana, Head – Mobile Business, Panasonic (*)
4:15 – 5:30 PM	Valedictory : Leadership Keynote Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary, Dept of Telecom Voice&Data Technology & Business Awards 2018 Fire Side Chat : Digital Disruption & Consolidation Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary, Dept of Telecom Akhil Gupta, Vice Chairman, Bharti Enterprises Sandeep Arora, MD-Customer Experience, Cisco India Moderator – Pradeep Gupta, CMD, CyberMedia Voice&Data Leadership Awards 2018 & Acceptance Speeches Award Winners Group Photograph
5:30 PM	Networking High Tea
()Invited Speakers, (*) Conference agenda, speakers can change without notice.